Personal Division, a publishing arm beneath the Take-Two Interactive umbrella, has signed a publishing settlement with Wētā Workshop to publish the studio’s new Lord of the Rings sport.
Wētā Workshop is the VFX studio behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, and in 2014, it based a online game division. That crew is now growing a “new sport set within the Center-earth universe of J.R.R. Tolkien,” in response to a press launch. Center-earth Enterprises has licensed the literary works of the sequence to Wētā Workshop, too, giving the studio “the broadest artistic license to interpret the underlying lore of the books.”
“We’re thrilled to accomplice with Wētā Workshop to publish a sport set in such a rare and celebrated universe,” Personal Division head Michael Worosz writes in a press launch. “The Lord of the Rings IP is residence to so many outstanding tales, and no entity is best geared up than the crew at Wētā Workshop to create a particular, new Center-earth gaming expertise.”
Wētā Workshop’s gaming lead, Amie Wolken, says it is a privilege to create a brand new sport set in Center-earth, particularly one which’s going to be “so completely different from what followers have performed beforehand.”
“As a fan ourselves, we’re excited for players to discover Center-earth in a means they by no means have earlier than, and introduce new followers to the magic of The Lord of the Rings,” Wolken writes within the press launch.
This new Lord of the Rings sport doesn’t but have a title and is early in growth. It doesn’t have a launch date both, nevertheless it’s anticipated to launch someday throughout Take-Two’s Fiscal Yr 2024 (April 2023 – March 2024).
Whereas ready to study extra about this sport, try the newest gameplay from The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which was lately delayed out of its Sept. 1 launch date by just a few months. Watch this teaser from the upcoming Amazon Center-earth TV present, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, after that.
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